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Originally Posted by SlipperyJim
Ever played the original Dominions? Dominions: Priests, Prophets, and Pretenders ... aka Dom:PPP?
No re-usable commander scripts. No automated site searching. No monthly spell-casting commands. No automated pooling of gems and blood slaves.
I feel like one of those cranky old men who's always telling the kids, "When I was your age, we had to WALK to school! Uphill! Both ways! In nine feet of snow!"
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is this: Dominions 3 has seriously reduced the amount of micromanagement that we used to have. Can they go farther? Sure, there's always going to be room for improvement. But they've come a long way.  |
Actually, yes I did, and I held off on Dom3 for a couple of years because I simply felt the micromanagement still had not been addressed enough. I finally caved in a year ago or so because I had extra money, and wanted to support the franchise anyway, but there are still issues.
Frankly my feeling is at this point there is not really much need for massive amounts of new content in a new Dom game. There is a pressing need to clean up the UI further, fix some of these persistent micro issues, and actually make the SP game meaningful.
I understand that these things are simply not priorities, nor are they 'fun' to work on, but meh, dom will always remain in the little niche it's carved out because the overall polish is so poor.
I can live with it, most people in the community can live with it, so it may just never happen, Illwinter is a small team with limited resources. They do the best they can, and they do what keeps them interested in continuing the game. There's nothing wrong with that, just as there's nothing wrong with fans making requests, no matter how unlikely they are to actually be incorporated.